[erlang-questions] Erlang web servers challenge

[Josh Johnston]

Sad truth in my experience is that this isn't limited to students, as you'll see most clearly when you try to hire for a junior position :P  There seems to be a lot of people going under the title of programmer who are actually "IDE users" or "framework configurers" or "API implementers", and when you ask them to do some actual programming you can see how lost they are in it.


On 11/07/2011, at 3:37 PM, Richard O'Keefe wrote:

> 
> On 11/07/2011, at 3:19 PM, OvermindDL1 wrote:
> 
>> I hope that is a joke.  I inhaled 1200 page manuals like popcorn when I was a student 20 years ago, and still do to this day.  I *hope* that being lazy is their only problem.  Yeesh...
> 
> I wish it were a joke.  And to be fair, not all of the students complained of this.
> But about 1/4 of the students did complain of that.
> And a similar number complained of basically being unable to read 2-page
> programs without a syntax-colouring IDE.
> 
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